Explore every episode of the podcast Weekends with Ben O’Hara-Byrne

Guest: Goldy Hyder, president and CEO, Business Council of Canada.

Guest: Linwood Barclay, NY Times bestselling author

Guest: Christine Van Geyn, Litigation Director, Canadian Constitution Foundation

Air Canada flight attendants vow ‘day of action’ Guest: Shanyn Elliot, chair of the strike committee for the flight attendants of air canada Big changes are coming to Air Canada's Aeroplan program Guest: Patrick Sojka, founder, Rewards Canada UN Security Council holds rare Sunday meeting over Gaza as families of Hamas hostages fight for their release Guest: Matan Eshet, cousin of Hamas hostage Evyatar David. How scammers are using AI to mimic well known names in Canadian finance to steal big money Guest: David Rosenberg, founder & President, Rosenberg Research

Guest: Greg Mercer, Investigative reporter, The Globe and Mail and author of The Lobster Trap: The Global Fight for a Seafood on the Brink

Guest: Andrew Lownie, historian and author of Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York

Guest: Catriona Le May Doan, Canada Games Council chair and Olympic gold medallist

Mboko shines in Montreal, her first coach charts her incredible rise Guest: Pierre Lamarche, .Victoria Mboko's former coach and now CEO of All-Canadian Sports Management, Nova Scotia premier faces backlash over strict wildfire prevention rules Guest: Fred DeLorey, Partner, NorthStar Public Affairs, 2021 federal Conservative national campaign manager, Nova Scotian The future of late night comedy: What's lost if It goes away? Guest: Stephen Farnsworth, Professor of Political Science University of Mary Washington, director Center for Leadership and Media Studies. And co-author of Late-Night in Washington: Political Humor and the American Presidency

Guest: Jeni Gunn, author of Confessions of the Working Poor in Macleans

Crunch time for Canada/US trade negotiations Guest: John Boscariol, Partner, Leader of the International Trade and Investment Law Group at McCarthy Tétrault LLP How is Carney handling Trump? Guest: Derek Burney, former chief of staff to PM Brian Mulroney and former Canadian Ambassador to the United States Tesla's self-driving car gamble Guest: Phil Koopman, emeritus professor of engineering, Carnegie Mellon University and autonomous vehicle safety expert North American auto industry hit hard by tariffs Guest: Jan Griffiths, veteran automotive supply chain executive and host of the Automotive Leaders podcast

Guest: Erica Brozovsky, sociolinguist and host of the PBS Digital’s Otherwords

Guest: Colin Mochrie, Canadian improv star and comedian

London Junior Hockey Trial verdict: Inside the courtroom Guest: Sean O’Shea, reporter, Global News London Junior Hockey Trial verdict: Should the case have gone to trial? Guest: Nick Cake, defense lawyer and former crown prosecutor  A tribute to Hulk Hogan from one of the few pro wrestlers to pin him Guest: Jacques Rougeau, former pro wrestler When Happy Gilmore hit Vancouver 30 years ago Guest: Greg Jackson, location manager and Joel Hurley, location scout, both worked on Happy Gilmore 

Guest: Jacques Rougeau, former pro wrestler

Guest: Eve Lazarus, author of Beneath Dark Waters: The Legacy of the Empress of Ireland Shipwreck

Guest: Steve "Lips" Kudlow, founder, lead singer and guitarist, Anvil

Guest: Timothy Lang, President & Chief Executive Officer, Youth Employment Services.

Guest: Samir Kuikarni, CEO Osiris Inc. o/a Showcase.

Guest: Danielle Smith, Alberta Premier.

Guest: John Gradek, Faculty Lecturer and Academic Programs Coordinator, Supply Chain, Logistics, Operations and Integrated Aviation Management, McGill University

Guest: Steven Page, musician and founder of the Barenaked Ladies.

Guest: David Pugliese, defence reporter, Ottawa Citizen.

Guest: David Coletto, CEO, Abacus Data.

Guest: Christopher Pollen, journalist and author of "Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World's Most Vulnerable Places"

Guest: Michael Kovrig, former Canadian diplomat, Senior Advisor on Asia, International Crisis Group.

Guest: Randy Bachman, musician, lead vocalist and guitarist of Bachman-Turner Overdrive.

Guest: Gord Nichol, Oilers fan from Saskatchewan.

Guest: Dina Doll, attorney and legal analyst, MeidasTouch Host.

Guest: Samir Khan, executive vice-president, Institute for Fiscal Studies and Democracy.

Guest: Duff Conacher, co-founder, Democracy Watch.

Guest: Gustavo Arellano, columnist, LA Times .

Guest: Mike Levine, bassist and keyboardist, Triumph.

Guest: Tina B. Phillips, assistant director of the Center for Engagement in Science and Nature at the Cornell Lab.

Guest: Jody Wilson-Raybould, former federal Minister of Justice and Attorney General, author of True Reconciliation.

Guest: Hilke Schellmann, journalism professor, New York University, author of The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired and Why We Need to Fight Back Now.

Guest: Vice-Admiral (Ret’d) Mark Norman, Canada's former vice chief of defence staff, retired leader of the Royal Canadian Navy.

Guest: Don Drummond, a Stauffer-Dunning Fellow at Queen’s University and a Fellow-In-Residence at the C.D. Howe Institute.

Guest: Sean O’Shea, consumer and investigative reporter, Global News.

Guest: Geoffrey Beattie, Professor of Psychology, Edge Hill University.

Guest: Jim Weese, Professor of Kinesiology, Western University.

Guest: Mark Gane, co-founder of Martha and the Muffins.

Guest: Kurt Badenhausen, sports valuations reporter, Sportico.

Guest: Robert Macfarlane, author of Is a River Alive?

Guest: Rachel Plotnick, author of License to Spill: Where Dry Devices Meet Liquid Lives.

Guest: Howard Markel, director of the Center for the History of Medicine and George E. Wantz Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan.

Guest: Dave Williams, former Canadian astronaut and space shuttle veteran.

Guest: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent, Global News.

Guest: Richard Fairhead, Oilers fan from Brisbane.

Guest: Jeffrey Brook, professor, Occupational & Environmental Health, University of Toronto.

Guest: Kate Camenzuli, vice-president of retail, CBRE.